26 September, 2005

Gas Guy Mafia

3:30 this morning I wrote a beautiful post about how I didn't particularly care for the Gas Guy. When I went to fix a typo, I accidentally deleted the whole thing. I was tired and not thinking clearly. Now I have reached the obvious conclusion that Jeremy Swizzlestick controls the blogosphere.

John,I just never really cared for his stuff. Most what I read seemed to heavy-handed and really judgmental. It all had the air of "Grad Student pursuing Master of Fine Arts In Creative Writing" about it. You know...the stuff that crops up in campus Literary Magazines. Some people groove on that style of writing. I'm more for stepping away from the Thesauras.

Katherine, I share your "eh" feelings for Gas Guy. I only started reading him recently (say, a month ago) and it felt too heavy-handed to be real. I always suspected he was a guy writing character exercises, but I never suspected that he wasn't even in Tennessee.